Newark, NJ – After Newark Mayor Cory Booker announced last week that the cash-strapped city would have to cut back on everything — including toilet paper — two New Jersey companies are coming to the rescue, ready to help clean up clean up a messy situation in the state’s largest city.
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Marcal Manufacturing, based in Elmwood Park, and Justtoiletpaper.com, which makes designer toilet paper and is based in Margate, said they will donate a few hundred rolls to city employees in order to keep City Hall sanitary.
“When the team at Marcal heard about the budget situation in Newark, we wanted to help out as best we could. The recycled bath tissues are intended to relieve city employees of the burden of bringing their own supplies to work,” said M.J. Jolda, the senior vice president of marketing at Marcal.
The company also plans to help out Newark city employees by pulling up in front of City Hall in their tractor-trailer, handing out 50,000 free rolls of recycled toilet paper to people who show their city ID. The 50,000 rolls amount to almost $35,000.
The date for the toilet paper distribution has yet to be determined.
Facing a $180 million budget gap, Booker has said he plans layoffs of personnel and cutbacks on everything from toilet paper to Christmas decorations to clean up the city’s budget mess, (as was reported here by VIN News).
Mark Polish, the head of justtoiletpaper.com, said, “I was so puzzled when I heard this from Mayor Booker. . . “Isn’t it someone’s right to have toilet paper at work?”
Polish said his company will set up a donation button on its online site that will allow customers to donate Santa Claus-patterned toilet paper to city employees. Since Booker has said the city won’t pay for holiday decorations, Polish said the paper will also help Newark have a clean, happy Christmas in July.
“I love Christmas, even though I’m Jewish,” Polish said. “As soon as I read what was happening in Newark, I knew I wanted to help out.”
Jew to the rescue!
Mark Polish seems like a nice guy, but a little messed up. I mean he’s Jewish, likes Xmas and his name is Polish. Oh well…m
is it legal to donate anything to government? the next story will be about corruption
Look how thinks are developing, all this company’s located in NJ are donating toilet paper by the end of the year they will file tax exemption on this money so the city/state will have less revenue and the mayer Booker is here to save money… GOVERMENT
To number 2: Leave it to people like you who always take something good a Yid does and criticize and criticize and criticize. Go back to your Beis Medresh.